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ARTICLE DISPENSER HAVING DEFORMABLE ARTICLE DISCHARGE MEANS Flled June29 1965 INVENTOR ATTORNEY E. Dl L UCO Oct. 11, 1966 United States Patent3 27 3,080 ARTCLE DlSPENSER HAVING BEFORE/TABLE ARTCLE DHSCHARGE MEANSEugene Di Lneo, 1270 Kearny Drive, North Brunswick, NJ. Filed .inne 29,1965', Ser. No. 463,004 2 Claims. (Cl. 221-260) This invention relatesgenerally to dispensing packages, and to particularly to dispensingpackages for typewriter ribbons in which provision is made for theattachment of the dispensing package to a rack, and for a hingingpulltab that ejects a single typewriter ribbon through a slot in thepackage.

Numerous items, such as typewriter ribbons, are sold from packagesholding more than one typewriter ribbon. These dispensing packages arebest suited for use when they are attached to a rack where they arecaused to be displayed prominently. Since these typewriter ribbons areoften capable of being destroyed if improperly handled, it is ratheressential that they be maintained in a dispenser package until they areready for use or sale.

It has been found that a dispenser package may be devised which willeject or dispense one typewriter ribbon at a time.

It is an object of this invention to provide a dispenser package fortypewriter ribbons which will hold a plurality of such ribbons and, ifproperly manipulated, will cause one ribbon at a time to be ejected,maintaining the remaining ribbons free from mishandling or otherimpairment.

It is another object of this invention to provide a typewriter ribbondispenser package which will be neat, attractive, easy to attach to arack, and easy to operate.

Yet a further object of this invention is to provide a dispenser packagewhich, upon manipulation of a pulltab, will eject one typewriter ribbonat a time and will hold the remaining undispensed ribbons free fromimpairment or damage.

These objects and advantages, as well as other objects and advantages,may be attained by the device illustrated in the drawings in which:

lFIGURE l is a plan view of a carbon sheet cut to shape, and providedwith fold-lines, in order that the sheet may be folded into a dispensercarton;

FIGURE 2 is a plan View of a support sheet for forming a support forinsertion into the bottom of the dispenser package to support thepull-tab or horizontally folded portion of the lower end of the rearwall;

FIGURE 3 is a vertical sectional view of the folded (2) a support 12.The carton sheet has a plurality of interconnected panels 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18. These panels are separated from each other by fold or scorelines. The carton sheet 11 is folded on the fold-lines 19, 19, etc.,whereby vertical panel 113 becomes the vertical side wall of the carton,vertical panel 14 becomes the front wall of the carton, vertical panel15 becomes the opposite side wall of the carton, and vertical panel 16becomes the outer rear wall of the carton. Vertical panel 18 becomes asecond rear wall of the carton, and it is disposed inside the outer rearwall 16. In this position, the panel 17 defines a flap which overlaps aportion of the outside of side panel 13, and is adhesively securedthereto. The outer rear wall 16 has a pair of attachment flaps 20, 20,which fold outwardly and downwardly therefrom fold-lines 21, 21. Theilaps are defined by cut edges 22, which separate them from the outerrear wall 16.

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The front wall has a dispensing slot 23, which is spaced upwardly fromthe bottom edge of the front wall 14. The inner rear wall has a hingingsection 25 delined by top and bottom score lines 26, 26. This hingingsection is generally opposite the slot 23. `Immediately adjacent andbelow the hinging section 25 on the rear panel 118, there is an integralhorizontal folded portion 27. This horizontal portion 27 ends in apull-tab 28, which extends out through the slot 23. Thus, when thepull-tab 28 is drawn out through the slot 23, the hinging section 2,5 ofthe inner rear wall 118 lhinges toward the slot 23, causing material ortypewriter ribbons resting upon the horizontal portion 27 to be ejectedthrough the slot 23. When the pull-tab 28 is released, the weight of thestack of elements in the dispensing carton against the hinging section25, will tend normally to restore it to a generally vertical unhingedposition, so that the material to be dispensed will fall down, and willrest upon the horizontal portion 27, ready for the next manipulation ofthe pull-tab 2-8, so that they may be ejected from the slot 23.

The carton sheet 11 is provided with the usual interconnected panelswhich dene a bottom wall 29, and a top wall and insertion flap 31 on thebottom wall, and insertion flap 32 on the top Wall, closure flaps 34, 34on the bottom edges of the side panels 13, 15 and closure tlaps 35, 35on the top edges of t-he side panels 13, 15.

Since it is desirable that the lhorizontal folded portion 27 shall besupported in the dispensing package, so that the weight of the materialto be dispensed will not deform it downwardly, a support sheet 12 isprovided to re-enforce the horizontal folded portion 27. The supportsheet 12 has a floor 35 and integral downwardiy folded flaps 37, 37 etc.When the flaps 37 are folded downwardly, they will maintain the oor orsupport `36 as a horizontal wall in support of the horizontal foldedportion 27, for the dependent side walls 37, 37, etc. are dimensioned tomaintain the horizontal folded portion 27 at the level of the bottom ofthe slot 23.

ln operation, the carton sheet 11 and the support sheet 12 are assembledin the relationship shown in FIGURE 3, and the articles to be dispensedare inserted into the carton sheet, where they will gravitationally fallto rest upon the horizontal folded portion 27. The attachment flaps 22,22 are folded outwardly and downwardly, and may be attached to a wallsurface or rack to hold the dispensing package. When it is desired toobtain an article from the dispensing package, the pull-tab 28 is drawnin an outward direction and the hinging portion 25 moves the package tobe dispensed out of the slot 23. When the pull-tap 28 is released, theweight of the column of packages in the dispenser package, restores thehinge section 25 to normal position shown in 23, and the next object tobe dispensed assumes a position opposite the slot 23 lying upon thehorizontal portion 27, ready for the neXt dispensing operation.

The foregoing description is merely intended to illustrate an embodimentof the invention. The component parts have been shown and described.They each may have substitutes which may perform a substantially similarfunction; such substitutes may be known as proper substitutes for thesaid components and may have actually been known or invented before thepresent invention; these substitutes are contemplated as being withinthe scope of the appended claims, although they are not specificallycatalogued herein.

What is claimed: 1. A dispensing package comprising: (a) a carton sheetwith fold-lines defining a plurality of interconnected panels; (b) afront wall, an outer wall, and opposite side walls of a Carton definedby vertically folded panels of the interconnected panels;

(c) a top wall and a bott-om wall dened by horizontally folded panels ofthe interconnected panels; (d) an inner rear wall dened by a verticallyfolded panel of the interconnected panels and `overlapped by the outerrear wall;

(e) a horizontal folded portion of the lower end of the inner rear wallextending through a slot in the front wall, whereby a pull on the end ofthe inner wall extending through the slot, will hinge the horizontal endof the inner rear wall above the horizontal folded portion, in a forwarddirection, and will expel material on the horizontal folded portion ofthe -rear wall, out through the slot;

(f) a support sheet with fold-lines defining a plurality ofinterconnected panels;

(g) a horizontal wall on the support sheet dened by one of the panels;

(h) a plurality of dependent side walls on the support sheet whereby thetop wall is disposed under and supports the horizontal folded portion ofthe inner rear wall when the folded support sheet is inserted in thecarton.

Z. A dispensing package according to claim 1, and

(a) a downwardly folded ap on the outer rear wall dening a means tomount the dispensing package on a rack.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,613,173 1/1927Kimball 221-260 3,156,678 11/1964 Bua 221-311 3,186,591 6/1965 Solomon221-268 `ROBERT B. `REEVES, Primary Examiner.

WALTER SOBIN, Examiner.

1. A DISPENSING PACKAGE COMPRISING: (A) A CARTON SHEET WITH FOLD-LINESDEFINING A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTED PANELS; (B) A FRONT WALL, ANOUTER WALL, AND OPPOSITE SIDE WALLS OF A CARTON DEFINED BY VERTICALLYFOLDED PANELS OF THE INTERCONNECTED PANELS; (C) A TOP WALL AND A BOTTOMWALL DEFINED BY HORIZONTALLY FOLDED PANELS OF INTERCONNECTED PANELS; (D)AN INNER REAR WALL DEFINED BY A VERTICALLY FOLDED PANEL OF THEINTERCONNECTED PANELS AND OVERLAPPED BY THE OTHER REAR WALL; (E) AHORIZONTAL FOLDED PORTION OF THE LOWER END OF THE INNER REAR WALLEXTENDING THROUGH A SLOT IN THE FRONT WALL, WHEREBY A PULL ON THE END OFTHE INNER WALL EXTENDING THROUGH THE SLOT, WILL HINGE THE HORI-